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It’s always around this time of year that I see memes and news stories circulating about the belief (and it’s a totally false belief) that chocolate manufacturers in the UK have removed the word Easter from their chocolate egg packaging in order to encourage sales to Muslims, or as part of a wider conspiracy to marginalise Christianity, or because something involving foreigners is changing the way we celebrate Easter in Britain.

Do you think there ought to be a statue of Joseph Rowntree in York? Do you think it’s a scandal